Friday, October 2, 2015

Bernie Sanders Is Surging And Has Cut Hillary Clinton’s National Lead By More Than Half

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released
today found that Senator Bernie Sanders has cut Hillary Clinton national
lead from 34 points to 15 points without Biden in the race.

According to the poll, the rise of Bernie Sanders is
coming mostly from Democratic voters supporting him. Sanders has gained
thirteen points of support between July and September. The Senator from
Vermont has seen his support grow from 25% to 38%. Hillary Clinton has
lost six points during the same period and dropped from 59%-53%.

Until Vice President Biden is a declared candidate
for the Democratic nomination, using polling that includes him is akin
to playing political fantasy football. Biden is currently not a
candidate for the Democratic nomination, so any poll that includes the
Vice President is engaging in a hypothetical.

The contest for the Democratic nomination is between
Clinton and Sanders. The NBC News poll backs up what every previous
poll about the Democratic contest has found. It isn’t that Hillary
Clinton is unpopular with Democratic voters, but that Sen. Sanders is
gaining in popularity.

Bernie Sanders is doing a lot of things right in his
campaign. Sen. Sanders has a clear and simple message of economic
populism that is driven by a belief that government should be working
for the people, not billionaire political donors and corporations.

The Sanders campaign has reached out to red state
Democrats that are all too often ignored by the national party. The
Sanders campaign is energizing new voters to enter the process and is
willing to fight for the issues that matter most to working Americans.

The biggest positive that Sen. Sanders has brought
to the table has been a rejection of negative campaigning. His refusal
to attack former Sec. of State Clinton has made his candidacy more
acceptable to Democratic primary voters. Sanders isn’t running as a
negative outsider bashing Clinton. In other words, he isn’t Trump.

The support for Sen. Sanders that was once most
visible in the early primary states has spread to the national polls,
which means that Democrats have a real contest for their nomination.

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